Books By James Dodds - Author

James Dodd's hearty linocuts show in a very simple way the diversity of different boat rigs. His Alphabet of Boats started life as a teething book for his son and daughter: six English east coast boats printed onto wood and bound by a spliced rope ring. As his children cut their teeth, so the idea of an alphabet grew to defining the difference between a Smack and a Bawley, a Ketch and a Lugger, from Ark to Zulu, for young and old. Dodd is now teaching his children to sail, which brought about the follow-up book, Alphabet of Boat Bits, naming the parts of a small gaff-rigged sloop. He lives and works in Wivenhoe, Essex.